iPhone still the #1 smartphone in the U.S., but Android is the top platform

For all of the times we see the global numbers showing Android overwhelmingly taking over the smartphone market, there is still the smartphone market in the U.S., which shows a far different story than elsewhere. The standard theory is that Android has so much market share because of inexpensive low-end devices around the world, but that Apple is still holding its own in the high-end market. If that's true, it would explain the numbers we're seeing in the U.S. where the high-end market is bigger than many regions.

According to the data from Statista, Apple is by far the most popular manufacturer for U.S. consumers with 40% of the market as of Q2 2013. Of course, this still puts iOS in second place behind Android, which clocks in at 52% of the market. Not surprisingly, Samsung leads the way for other manufacturers with 24.7% of the U.S. market, most of which are Android devices, but a small percentage are Windows Phone. HTC comes next with 9.4%, Motorola afterwards with 9%, and LG with 7%.

With Android and iOS combining for 92% of the U.S. market, that leaves a little bit for other platforms. BlackBerry leads the rest with 3%, then Windows Phone and "Other" combine for 2%.

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I wonder if the Lumia 1020 is enough to bring Nokia up from that abysmal 1.2% share. I hope they are still considering offering non-Windows Phone devices, because I still think that is the best option moving forward for them.

Well, yes, but even with all of the new Lumia 920s that have been released on Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T there is still no real gain in market share for Nokia.

It is possible for one device, no matter if it's exclusive or not, to help increase the market share of a company. Apple did it with the iPhone and it's exclusivity to AT&T. Motorola did it with it's DROID line on Verizon.

Yes, but when you boil down to it, the people who switched carriers or the people who bought those devices really wanted those phones. I still see examples today where there are several people who will switch carriers according to what they are offering in terms of devices. I have a friend who has gone from Verizon to AT&T and then over to T-Mobile just because he wanted a certain device.

Also, my point was that when there are phones that introduce a new platform (in this case Windows Phone 8), usually people will switch to the carrier that is offering that new platform, whether exclusively or not. In this case, it seems to be that AT&T is the one who is really offering Windows Phone 8 devices that also happen to be Nokia Lumia devices. However, people are not really buying the Lumia devices in general (across any of the three major carriers). Verizon may not be promoting the Lumia line, but AT&T is definitely promoting it. In fact, if you were to ask me I would say they are treating the Lumia the same way they treated the iPhone when they had exclusive rights to it. I see advertisements about the new Lumia 1020 at almost every commercial break.

You have to wonder if Nokia were to offer the devices with another OS if people would buy them more than they are now. It's an interesting thought and one that we must consider when looking into these numbers.

Michael is so butthurt by Sammy's success he has to post his usual propaganda to try and feel relevant as Apple continues to slide down the totem pole.

Here are 3 more important headliners:

Samsung sold 2X more phones than iPhone worldwide last Q.
Samsung leads Apple as the most profitable smartphone manufacturer.
Samsung phones top Apple iPhones in the American Customer Satisfaction index.

Funny, because Samsung didn't actually become the most profitable smartphone maker, and you cite a survey (ACSI) that had a sample size of 250. 250 respondents is not representative of anything where millions of devices are sold.

How are ACSI data collected?
The ACSI surveys customers of companies and users of government services randomly via telephone and email. Potential respondents are asked questions about their purchase and use of specific products and services bought within specified, recent time periods (these periods vary according to the product or service). Those who qualify as respondents are then asked from which company or which brand they have purchased, and responses to the ACSI survey questions are coded as a customer interview for that company. The ACSI score for each company is based on a sample of 250 customer interviews, with more than 70,000 interviews conducted annually.

it's so funny how iPhoners need to feel important when nothing out of Apple's camp is compelling anymore. Seriously. 1Phone wonder is over and Apple's time has passed. No Jobs will soon share a similar fate that Microsoft is without Gates. Gates and Jobs are not replaceable and Balmer and Cook are just men, not one-of-a-kind geniuses...

Sorry Apple, at least when Jobs ran things Apple stood for quality, now Apple is just running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Plastic iPhones and iOS 7 which has reversed everything about Apple's iconic identity for the last 6 years and made it look like a pastel colored, flat, frosty glass blurry and bad Android theme.

It's time we all see technology NOT through the NARROW vision of Apple's eye! Buh bye Apple, you had a near decade run, not bad for a 4 products lol.

Profile? nah, a whole website! Jobs made a fool of himself with his silly ass quote and way of thinking and my youtube video http://youtu.be/GvPlAyTG4ik fully and totally pones him. I dare you to watch it and disagree, i will paypal you 10 iPones if you don't laugh your ass off (that's 10 bux in non apple fanboy money)

Didn't say he was a fool, I called and think of him as a genius BUT his statement did make him look like a fool, disagree? "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong, I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this." ~Steve Jobs

Great men can/do act a fool sometimes.. this was sometime and my parody makes fun of this

The fact that you are trashing a guy who has been dead for years proves what a repugnant little troll you are. See, Steve actually did something with his life, rather than spending it trolling the internet for stories on a company that scared him. If you like some other brand, then that's fine. Just save us all the hassle of seeing your blatant trolling and seeing your ignorant and naive comments on every single Apple article. Don't you get that if you hate Apple, these articles aren't for you, they are for those people who are interested in Apple?

A) I called him and he is/was a genious
B)He is/what made Apple great
C)He is dead and this hurts Apple beyond your Apple fan's worst fears
D)I made fun of this statement: "I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong, I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this." ~Steve Jobs
E)If you cannot see how silly his quote was, how utterly ridiculous that he wanted to destroy a competitor by wasting 40billion dollars of Apple's money and you don't get my humor, cool but calling me a troll because you don't like MY VALID opinions makes you the troll

and one last thing, I don't actually hate apple products, just their arrogant fans and ridiculous websites that promote so incessantly such mediocrity. This website is called phonearena not cultofapple. Some of these fanyboy written articles couldn't be less appropriate for a unbiased website as this is supposed to be...

and that is why i speak my mind, but with some humor (oh I'm not funny to you? hmmm, let me work on that) and all valid, detailed opinions... countering the fanboyism if you will, somebody has got to do it, can't let you guys just run wild :/

People don't care, some just want that apple on their phone. Not to mention it is an American company so even though they don't make any phones here they do get that additional support that Samsung and other foreign brands will never get here.

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